<p>@ucanthrograd - Have you not figured out you cannot say that and must not critique like every other student who puts his essay out there? Coddle is the name of the game here, I figured out. So such for treating everyone equally. I know if my kid put his essay out there, he would man up and take what comes his way and not expect it to be defended if it was just average. </p>
<p>Okay, so now this is going to be interesting.</p>
<p>The latest news is that he accepted all 8 offers and will be attending all the Ivies at the same time.</p>
<p>This is sure to get a lot of people upset who are on the waitlist and think they deserve to have been accepted.</p>
<p>@fluffy2017 stated, “It is also interesting that the people who criticized someone for applying to many of the Ivies (in one of the rejected threads) since (paraphrasing here) “not all Ivies are the same” “shows lack of focus” or “sounds like he was chasing prestige” are absent in this thread with that criticism.”</p>
<p>I was going to write this earlier, but got sidetracked. The reason you do not see these posters here is there are only so many reasons to say stupid. They got tired of saying it.</p>
<p>PS: Obviously, one cannot accept all offers, so the story is wrong.</p>
<p>@fluffy2017 - You are too late. They already announced that Colbert will be taking over for Letterman. Nice try though.</p>
<p>@fallenchemist - You got me rolling on the floor for real. That was excellent!!!</p>
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<p>Good grief. You really are not getting the point. No professor would say anything like that. What is hoped for is that both in and out of class this person and others that represent a broad spectrum of life experiences would pipe up in class or in everyday discussions outside of class and bring a perspective that would otherwise be missing.</p>
<p>@awcntdb - Thanks!! 
I figured someone had to save his butt from that lame joke.</p>
<p>“I think my one kid (a multiple Ivy admit this year himself) said it best, “OK, I did all what he did by end of 10th grade, what is so awesome here?” Fair question.”</p>
<p>This isn’t quite a humble brag, but it’s close.</p>
<p>OMG, I can not believe people are still criticizing and finding faults in this young man’s success.
This is history; “APPLIED & GOT ACCEPTANCES FROM ALL 8 IVY’S”.
Only in AMERICA CAN SUCH HISTORY BE MADE!
SURE WE WILL FIND THIS IN THE GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS…but why can’t we “ALL” be happy for this kid, and if we do not have anything positive to say, then by all means reserve our negative comments to ourselves.
Yes, love ones and people we know got rejected; well, such is life. Lets be happy for those accepted, especially one that got into all 8. Maybe next time, it will be your turn to celebrate.
SO, please learn to CELEBRATE WITH THOSE WHO ARE CELEBRATING.</p>
<p>@Pizzagirl - It was not meant as a brag; it was meant as showing the reality of the other thousands of students who applied and got into the Ivys. I go one step further. There are thousands of students beyond what my son did. That is the reality of the Ivys. Oh by the way, I have two sons that did as much, so you might want to call it a double brag if you want to go that route. </p>
<p>If you really want to know: I did it; my wife did it; my brother did; my three nieces did it. Man, maybe I should stop pointing out the people I know who did it for I might be called elitist. </p>
<p>PS: My wife, brother and I were on the 1600 SAT scale, but still the same relative position.
Is that a octuple brag? I lost count.</p>
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<p>How was your comment about Colbert saving any butt?</p>
<p>Hey, I am just glad someone cracked a joke on this thread, in any event. </p>
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<p>…says he of the humble brag. :)</p>
<p>He only needs to impress Ivy adcoms. Don’t be so full of yourself you think he needs to impress you. </p>
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<p>Brilliant deduction. It’s clear you went to an Ivy. </p>
<p>“I cannot answer that question because 1) our family is very private, and we do shut down public anything, so one cannot know what one has missed and 2) we do not subscribe to wanting fame and avoid it. That is a moral difference here. We do not and have never seeked that. Fame is fleeting, and I want my kids to have much deeper personal substance.”</p>
<p>Sought. OMG-you-made-a-mistake, the Ivies must have been wrong to admit you. I demand to see your full academic and EC record so I can judge for myself whether you were “deserving” or not. It’s the least you could do, because otherwise I’ll be “let down” and certainly the Ivies know that they must ensure that I’m pleased with their chocies. </p>
<p>“i am simply saying that he is dead average for the Ivys, based on everything put out about him. Plus his interviews indicate no special anything either.”</p>
<p>So what if he is dead average for the Ivies? And? Half the students at the Ivies are below average. Even at Harvard! It’s crazy. They need to up their standards so that all of their students are above average. Or at least 80%.</p>
<p>Your desire to discredit this kid, to metaphorically throw cold water on him, speaks volumes about character.</p>
<p>“In other words, if you only accepted me because I was Hispanic and therefore you thought I would offer these great insights in my international relations class based on my extensive knowledge and condemnation of American policies in latin America and how they had affected my family – and it turns out that actually I’m a pretty conservative person who usually votes Republican and doesn’t speak Spanish”</p>
<p>But your way of thinking is just off, here, Momzie. They don’t “accept you only because you’re Hispanic.” It’s the totality of what you offer, of which being Hispanic is part of it. </p>
<p>It’s weird how some of you think that being a URM is like a brick that gets thrown on the scale and outweighs anything else on it. </p>
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<p>I was going to make this observation earlier in the thread when I realized that it could be wrong.</p>
<p>For example, it is possible that 80% are exactly at the average, 10% above and 10% below ;)</p>
<p>(just a math observation. I agree with your point though.)</p>
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<p>The unfortunate part is that the 15 minutes of fame will be overwhelmed by hours, days, weeks, and months of derision and negative reactions to the INCREDIBLY stupid decision to make his story public. </p>
<p>Year after year, the history repeats itself. And all that is needed is for a smart adult to tell the kid that the best answer to the press’ vultures is a polite but firm … No thank you. No comment. </p>
<p>Too bad for the nice kid.</p>